---
name: "name-client"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "orbit"
version: "0.5.17-11.2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/name-client"
---

# name-client(1)

CORBA Name Server client

## NAME

name-client - CORBA Name Server client

## SYNOPSIS

**name-client** \[ *root* \|  **--stdin** \| **--gnome** \] \[ **bind** \| **rebind** \| **bind\_context** \| **rebind\_context** \] *name object-id*

**name-client** \[ *root* \|  **--stdin** \| **--gnome** \] \[ **resolve** \| **unbind** \| **bind\_new\_context** \| **list** \| **destroy** \] *name*

**name-client** \[ *root* \|  **--stdin** \| **--gnome** \] \[ **new\_context** \]

## DESCRIPTION

**name-client** is a command-line client to CORBA Name Servers. There are different commands available for viewing, resolving, and creating name bindings.

The *root* argument to **name-client** denotes the IOR of the root naming context. Instead of an IOR either **--stdin** or **--gnome** may be specified. The former causes **name-client** to read the IOR from stdin. The latter causes it to use the GNOME name server.

The components of *name* are delimited delimited by '/'. The id and kind of these components are delimited by '.'. *object-id* is the IOR of an object.

## COMMANDS

- **new\_context**

  Creates a new naming context and prints its IOR.

- **bind\_new\_context**

  Creates a new naming context and binds it to *name*. The IOR of the new context is printed.

- **list**

  Lists all bound names in the naming context *name*.

- **bind**

  Binds *name* to *object-id*. If *name* is already bound an error is issued.

- **rebind**

  Like **bind** but rebinds *name* to *object-id* even if *name* was already bound.

- **bind\_context**

  Binds *name* to the context denoted by *object-id*.

- **rebind\_context**

  Like **bind\_context** but rebinds *name* to the context denoted by *context-id* even if *name* was already bound.

- **unbind**

  Removes the binding of *name*.

- **destroy**

  ## SEE ALSO

[orbit-name-server(1)](/orbit-name-server/1.md)

http://www.omg.org/

http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/

## AUTHOR

Copyright ©  2001 Dick Porter \<dick@acm.org\> and Elliot Lee \<sopwith@redhat.com\>

This manual was originally written for name-client by Sebastian Rittau \<srittau@debian.org\> for Debian GNU/Linux. It is based on [old-name-server(1)](/old-name-server/1.md) by Chris Waters \<xtifr@debian.org\>.